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DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Medeiros.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. What counts as "disability," how is it framed, and who frames it? My project is concerned with examining disability, biopolitics, and citizenship in Brazil. More specifically, it is concerned with examining how one of Latin America's largest organization for supporting those with intellectual disabilities has recently turned towards increasingly drawing on biomedical frameworks of disability...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jonna Yarrington.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Tangier Island is a small, incorporated town, just over one square mile, of 470 inhabitants in the Chesapeake Bay, belonging to Accomack County, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA. Its residents are densely related watermen and their families--mostly white, lower income, politically conservative, Christian, and skeptical of science and climate change. Endogamous marriage is preferred,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lara Sarlak.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Since 2011, the United States has classified an increasing number of migrants as 'criminal aliens' for the purposes of deportation. Recent studies have illustrated this policy's social toll: chronic insecurity among migrants, suffering among families torn apart, and alienation among those sent to an unfamiliar 'homeland' and as 'criminals' (e.g., Boehm 2016;Coutin 2016;Golash-Boza 2015;Khosravi...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Emma Pask.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Texas is home to the world's largest bat colonies. Bat scientists in Texas play a growing role in mediating the concerns of shared space and blurred boundaries between species as climate change increasingly alters these arrangements. Texas is also a longstanding laboratory for American political forms and competing sovereignties; it is at the forefront of both climate conservatism and potential...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Chrisler.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Liberal capitalist nation-states find themselves in perpetual crisis due to the structural contradictions of democratic ideals and the enduring social inequalities and violences of race. Neoliberal techniques of governance address these crises by cultivating new modes of personal responsibility and value through state-sanctioned projects of 'caring' for marginalized populations, forming new...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Spencer Kaplan.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. How do emergent technologies and their politics depend on the speculation and management of humanity’s future? This ethnographic project studies efforts among artificial intelligence (AI)researchers to reckon with their technologies’ societal impacts. It is sited in the San Francisco Bay Area: the geographic center of what AI proponents call a “generative revolution” fueled by powerful new...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mohammed Baten.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Mangroves' historical undervaluation has frequently resulted in an institutional vacuum, with no defined property rights or enforceable norms governing their usage or protecting against their destruction. In recent years, natural resource management has been battling rising commercialization and commodification pressures where national economic interests may not align with local interests and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rima Praspaliauskiene.

This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Hunt Fellowship will support the completion of a book manuscript 'Enveloped Lives: Caring and Giving in Lithuanian Health Care.' This book is an ethnography of how people practice health and care by engaging in ambiguous practices that some would define as informal and corrupt. It examines the relationship between caring, things and money. It focuses on how informal payments -- 'little...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fiori Sara Berhane.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project looks to emerging political practices surrounding the politics of memory for recent Eritrean refugees in Bologna, Italy. Since the mid-2000's Eritrea's young have been leaving in droves, in numbers as high as 2,000 to 7,000 people monthly. Traversing one of the deadliest migrant trails in the world, Eritreans constitute the second largest refugee group entering the EU by boat. I...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Irteza Binte-Farid.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This dissertation explores the ethical self-cultivation of black Muslim youth in Philadelphia. Anthropologist Saba Mahmood describes ethical self-cultivation as a "specific sets of procedures, techniques, and exercises through which highly specific ethical-moral subjects come to be formed" (Mahmood, 2005, p.120). I consider this process as well as how it becomes racialized and gendered in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicole van Zyl.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project proposes a legal historical ethnography of the liberal legal institution of parole as a site to explore the assimilation of colonial subjectivities into post-apartheid governance and social relations. It poses the question of how the institution mediates between the universalist liberal aspirations of law, and continued racial oppression and hierarchy in post-apartheid South...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ingrid Diaz.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Understanding plantations as a privileged mode of food and energy production in the Global South, my research broadly examines the feminization of the labor force in the expansion of the oil palm industry. In particular, I plan to study the recent and increasing incorporation of women as wage workers under the expansion of the plantation economy in a frontier region in Colombia. My multi-scale...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cameron Butler.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Phosphorus is an essential element for all life and a fundamental component of commercial fertilizers. This project follows phosphorus through agribusiness value chains that sustain the fertilizer demands of southern Ontario, a major Canadian agricultural region. I explore how phosphorus-related value-making practices both adapt to and transform planetary mineral cycles, particularly in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Maria Bonome Pederneiras Barbosa.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. More than ever, the problem of cultural borders is a prominent theme in political and social debates around the world. The perception of culture as an object has effects on the emergent cultural conservation and restoration policies, as well as generating disputes concerning their authenticity and origin. Contributing to this debate, this research project explores the question of "culture...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mariana Mora.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Through an ethnography focused on cases of forced disappearance in the Tlapaneco, Nahua and Mixteco indigenous regions of the state of Guerrero, Mexico, my proposed research project seeks to analyze the ways that the upsurge in extreme forms of violence since the undeclared war against organized crime launched in 2006, at the beginning of the Calderón administration, potentially fuels long-term...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Aditi Saraf.

This resources is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for support for a research project. In 2019, the Indian government revoked the constitutional autonomy granted to Kashmir and brought it under central rule, pushing the enduring occupation and insurgency beyond a lethal threshold. Entering into conversations about disputed borderlands and limits of national integration, my book project, Frontier Signatures, explores historic and contemporary...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sofia Lana.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Andean glaciers are among the fastest melting glaciers in the world, yet little is known about how this affects those who live in the Andes. Mainstream anthropology has focused on the potential impacts of climate change on displaced populations' cultural knowledge. I join anthropologists who question whether this research obscures present-day concerns in the Global South linked to ongoing...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ulla Berg.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project examines the detention and deportation of South American migrants from the United States, with a focus on the largely understudied migrant populations from Ecuador and Peru. In contrast to studies of deportation that focuses mostly on the period of detention and the return itself, this project examines deportation as a set of social practices occurring over time and as a transnational...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Marco Dell'Oca.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Even before the COVID-19 pandemics, vaccine hesitancy had been described as one of the most dangerous threats to global health of our times. The current pandemic has exacerbated the difference between those supporting the validity of vaccines and those against it. In the wake of COVID-19, across Europe and the US, the category of “anti-vaxxer” was connected in the media to qualifiers such as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Camila Galan de Paula.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This proposal investigates people in northeastern Brazil who claim to have "indigenous blood" ("sangue de índio"), but do not classify themselves as Indigenous people. In the southeast of Piauí state (unlike other regions), no parts of the rural population claim Indigenous status or land rights, yet many people refer to their "indigenous blood." Preliminary data suggest that this refers to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Eliza Williamson.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project set out to understand how the paradigm of 'humanized birth' is implemented in Salvador, Brazil, through Rede Cegonha, a government program to improve maternal and infant healthcare in Brazil's public health system. Over the course of twelve-months of multi-sited ethnographic research, the project followed Rede Cegonha from the federal Ministry of Health to the local health...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Juliet Glazer.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My project asks how aesthetic evaluation relates to financial valuation in the global circulation of specialized goods. To answer this question, my research focuses on luthiers—makers of handmade violins, violas, and cellos—as well as musicians and dealers with whom they interact in the United States and Italy. Rather than simply asking how market pressures affect luthiers’ workshop techniques,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Zhiying Ma.

This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. "Intimate Institutions: Psychiatry, Family, and the Rise of Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China" examines families' involvement in the care and management of persons diagnosed with serious mental illnesses in China, especially during the recent mental health legal reform. Over the last three decades, most psychiatric inpatients in China have been hospitalized against their will, by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eva Luksaite.

This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Intimate State investigates social, cultural, and political aspects of sterilisation (tubal ligation) in rural north India. The continued prevalence of this invasive and difficult-to-reverse procedure in India is a complex and poorly understood phenomenon. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Rajasthan and in government-organised sterilisation camps, this project examines...